Description

Indonesia’s biodiversity is under increasingly serious threat from environmental crimes including illegal logging, illegal mining, national park encroachment and poaching.

In this seminar, Laely Nurhidayah will assess the implementation of biodiversity laws in Indonesia, in particular the national laws and policies aimed at reducing deforestation. Drawing on her findings from multi-year empirical studies and field work in various Indonesian provinces, Laely will highlight the critical challenges to effective implementation, which include overlaps as well as gaps in the legal frameworks, lax enforcement, lack of local government capacity, and lack of awareness on the part of the local communities that are deeply affected by the implementation of the laws.

About The Speaker

Laely Nurhidayah leads the environment law and natural resources (marine and forest) research portfolios in her research centre. She was awarded her PhD in Law from the Macquarie University, Australia in 2015. Her PhD thesis was entitled “Transboundary Haze Pollution in the ASEAN Region: An Assessment on the Adequacy of the Legal and Policy Framework in Indonesia”. In addition, she has obtained her Master of Laws (Advanced) from TC Beirne School of Law, the University of Queensland Australia and received a Bachelor of Law from Jenderal Soedirman University in Indonesia.

Her research interest areas are international environmental law, marine and coastal governance, and forest governance in Indonesia and climate change adaptation. She is widely published in books, journals and working papers and has attended and presented papers in various international conferences. Prior to her position as a APCEL NUS visiting fellow 2018, she has received several research grants and fellowships. These include: INGSA Research associate Grantee in 2018; the Endeavour Research Fellow in 2017 with the project entitled “Coastal and Adaptation Laws and Policies in addressing Sea Level Rise (SLR) in Indonesia: In search for climate Justice,” hosted by Australia National Center for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS) the University of Wollongong; the Australia-APEC Women in Research Fellowship 2016 with the project entitled “Marine Biodiversity Laws in Indonesia and Australia: A comparative Study” hosted by ANCORS the University of Wollongong.